West Chicago Opinion
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Medical lawsuit headline off markAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - Newspaper readership is declining — and that’s just among the corps of Daily Herald headline writers. How else can you explain your Aug. 18 front-page headline, “Medical...
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This campaigning won’t be toleratedAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s comments directed toward Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are volatile, extremely harmful and lack total civility. I ...
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Responding to trustee’s complaintsAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - In response to Trustee Tim Allen’s Aug. 11 letter to the editor, it is clear that Tim will continue misleading residents and slandering other board members. He will cont...
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Blame the state for U-46 bus woesAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I empathize with the U-46 parents over the new bus routes reported in the Daily Herald where students must walk up to 1½ miles to catch a bus. However, it appears to me ...
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Uncle Sam not dead, just abusedAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - I, too, heard the story of old Uncle Sam that Walt Zlotow related in the Aug. 9 Fence Post. Sam wasn’t dead but he had seen a lot of abuse and it had been getting steadi...
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Trickle-up poverty has to stopAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Trickle-up poverty has to stop I’m a retiree who never made more than $50,000 per year and a believer in the tea party principles. Fence Post writer Jean Alberti wa...
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Big disappointment at tollway meetingAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Big disappointment at tollway meeting At the urging of the Daily Herald editorial staff, my husband and I attended Thursday’s Tollway Authority meeting in Wheaton. ...
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Tax Wall St. dealers’ profits to the maxAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Tax Wall St. dealers’ profits to the max Lately we heard about and read about Wall Street “investors.” These are not investors. They are speculators, institutions, ...
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Toll increase worth the benefitsAug 22, 2011 4:00 am - Toll increase worth the benefits As mayor of Bensenville, a town that sits on the western edge of one of the world’s busiest airports and at the crossroads of North...
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College should admit hostility to gaysAug 22, 2011 4:00 am - College should admit hostility to gays The Aug. 4 Daily Herald reports that Wheaton College has been ranked No. 1 by the Princeton Review as the most unfriendly uni...